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Fireball XL5
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Feb 23, 2006, 08:22 PM
 
John Stewart's real name is 'Jacob Lipshitz' or something.

Mine isn't bad but I feel like a change, a fresh start. How would I choose a new name?
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Feb 23, 2006, 08:39 PM
 
Originally Posted by Fireball XL5
How would I choose a new name?
Ask for suggestions on an internet forum.
     
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Feb 23, 2006, 10:13 PM
 
You can always get a name off of a hair dryer.
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Feb 23, 2006, 10:23 PM
 
Don't choose a name you would laugh at.
if i changed my name it would probably be jason or leon.
     
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Feb 23, 2006, 10:24 PM
 
"Jonathan Stewart Leibowitz"
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829537/bio

So stage name, not a name change.

edit: oopsie "Both he and his wife legally changed their last names to Stewart when they were married."
     
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Feb 23, 2006, 11:10 PM
 
Yeah, I went from gorickey to ManOfSteal to rickey939.
     
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Feb 23, 2006, 11:28 PM
 
I was born Jake Gyllenhaal but I changed my name to Kerrigan Tweedy
     
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Feb 23, 2006, 11:38 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego
Ask for suggestions on an internet forum.
OK, so does anybody have some suggestions.? Let them come but keep in mind possitiviness, renewal and manly. Don't make this a bust thread.



I made up a new word possitiviness.
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Feb 23, 2006, 11:45 PM
 
“Positiveness” is a real word.

Anyway, I like my name (yes, it really is Sage), but I might consider taking up my future wife’s surname, because I don’t particularly care for Olson.
     
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Feb 23, 2006, 11:48 PM
 
Originally Posted by SSharon
You can always get a name off of a hair dryer.
worked for me

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Feb 23, 2006, 11:52 PM
 
Yeah. I was born John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmitt. Now I am just Humpty Dumpty. That's MUCH easier for others to remember.
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Feb 24, 2006, 10:20 AM
 
I think you should change your name to a very slight alternate spelling of your current name. Then, when a friend you've know for a long time writes your name, start screaming at him like a wild person that you're damn sick and tired of him misspelling your name. When he gets all confused, show him your official ID and yell and scream some more.

Ahhh... good times.
     
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Feb 24, 2006, 10:24 AM
 
Originally Posted by Paco500
I think you should change your name to a very slight alternate spelling of your current name. Then, when a friend you've know for a long time writes your name, start screaming at him like a wild person that you're damn sick and tired of him misspelling your name. When he gets all confused, show him your official ID and yell and scream some more.

Ahhh... good times.
Even better, just swap out your last name for your first. "Smith John... no... it's always been Smith John"
     
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Feb 24, 2006, 10:31 AM
 
Max Power [/obvious]
     
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Feb 24, 2006, 10:56 AM
 
I have not changed my legal name. Nor would I have any interest to make a change.

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Feb 24, 2006, 11:57 AM
 
I hear it is a major pain the in ass to change your legal name. Can't be any easier after 9/11

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Feb 24, 2006, 03:16 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar
Max Power [/obvious]
Max Power...hmmmm, I like that.

Keep em coming guys.

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Feb 24, 2006, 03:18 PM
 
Max Payne.

Or be mysterious. Name yourself Agent 47.
     
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Feb 24, 2006, 03:22 PM
 
My oldest sister changed her name from Wendy, to Wendi, and finally to Windy.

I have always liked the name Locke. Thought about using it for one of my kids when I get around to having them, but then this whole LOST thing came along. Now I'm afraid my kid would get branded a product of a stupid tv show fascination. Anyway, still a good name.
     
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Feb 24, 2006, 03:26 PM
 
Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
I hear it is a major pain the in ass to change your legal name. Can't be any easier after 9/11
All you need to do is get married in New York State. Both parties get a free name change.
     
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Feb 24, 2006, 10:58 PM
 
Chesty LaRue?

Hooty McBoob?

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Feb 25, 2006, 04:45 AM
 
You could always use one of the joke names from the simpsons like ivonna tinkle, hue jass or amanda hugandkiss.
     
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Feb 25, 2006, 07:37 AM
 
Rock Strongo?

Lance Uppercut?
     
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Feb 25, 2006, 08:04 AM
 
Moe Lester


I think you should go with one of those fancy symbols that can't be pronounced.


Have you thought about the fact that most people you know are going to deride you for changing your name?
     
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Feb 25, 2006, 10:05 AM
 
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Feb 25, 2006, 10:08 AM
 
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Feb 25, 2006, 10:12 AM
 
Someone once sent me a few sugar-cubes of LSD through the mail with a return name of Hugh G. Rection from the French Quarter.

I knew who it was though.
     
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Feb 25, 2006, 10:23 AM
 
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Feb 25, 2006, 01:07 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dork.
All you need to do is get married in New York State. Both parties get a free name change.
not when we got married 15 years ago. Have they changed the law? I can't remember exactly but I seem to remember that at that time we could only choose from a last name that was actually already existant for one of us. We both changed our last names to a new third one and had to do it through the courts. It wasn't all THAT difficult, we were able to handle most of it ourselves.

We dumped two 10 letter last names and chose a new 4 letter one. The name of my mother-in-law's home town.
     
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Feb 25, 2006, 01:25 PM
 
I changed my last name this past summer. Used my mom's maiden (last) name, because it's cool. And my previous last name was tied to bad history.
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Feb 25, 2006, 04:11 PM
 
never done it, despite what society and my grandmother thinks. (she addresses mail to what my "traditional" married name would be.) My husband's name and mine would not have been a good hyphenation.
     
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Feb 25, 2006, 06:19 PM
 
Originally Posted by Kevin
Someone once sent me a few sugar-cubes of LSD through the mail with a return name of Hugh G. Rection from the French Quarter.

I knew who it was though.
ordering acid through the mail? The drug market must suck where you are.
     
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Feb 25, 2006, 08:13 PM
 
Originally Posted by macaddict0001
ordering acid through the mail? The drug market must suck where you are.
Didn't order it
     
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Feb 25, 2006, 08:19 PM
 
Originally Posted by Eriamjh
Chesty LaRue?

Hooty McBoob?
You left out Busty St Claire.

How about Amanda Hugginkiss... or perhaps.... Ivana Tinkle?
     
   
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